Glacier Bay

The route through Glacier Bay covered much more area in one day than we could cover in the Carolina.  Glacier Bay Tours ran this trip on a high speed catamaran.  The park is about 60 miles from the entrance at Icy Strait to the boundary up near Canada.  If you only saw one area from this part of Alaska, this is what you should see.  Up near the glaciers, you see newly uncovered earth, so there is little or no vegetation or wildlife, while out near the entrance, the earth is about 200 years "old".  

A panorama from Margerie Glacier near the Canadian border.  Again the scale is difficult to get a grip on.  The glacier face is probably 200 feet high.

A panorama taken after leaving Margerie Glacier

Here is a video of calving bergs. 

 For an idea of the size of this glacier here is a picture of a small cruise ship that is at least 30 feet tall (from the waterline to the top of the boat).  Getting a good feel for the scale was always a problem in Alaska.

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